andrewarndt

A joyful, if challenging, passage from Heschel's "The Sabbath" for your Sabbath day: He who wants to enter the holiness of the day must first lay down the profanity of…

I remember the first time I sat down to actually READ Psalm 119.  I was in grade school at the Christian school I attended.  Maybe 5th grade or so.  I…

I am an incurable "Bible guy." I love dogmatic and historical theology.  And I love "talking shop" with other people who love those things. But nothing gives me joy like…

2 Timothy.  A favorite of mine.  From a "father" (Paul) to a "son" (Timothy). An old Paul, grizzled and weatherbeaten, imprisoned, standing at the threshold of life's end.  He has…

I took a break from our Hebrews series at Bloom last night to give a talk on something that I think is crucially important for our growth - experiences of disillusionment.…

The Jewish scholar Abraham Heschel wrote a book in the last century called "The Sabbath".  A marvelous book which I'd highly encourage you to read... richly suggestive for Christian thought…

A friend of mine recently posted this interview on facebook: Eugene Peterson on Sabbath It's an hour long interview between Eugene Peterson and Gabe Lyons which focuses on the role…

A passage that has always moved me...  6 this Ezra came up from Babylon. He was a teacher well versed in the Law of Moses, which the LORD, the God of…

Earlier this year, through a whole pile of experiences, it seemed to me that the Lord was speaking to me about re-imagining the whole way that I think about my…

For reasons that are by now probably very evident, the Lord's Prayer has sometimes been called "The Disciples' Prayer"... the prayer leads us into the depths of God's longing for…